Community and Voluntary controlled primary schools admissions policy 2021
Deferred/part-time entry
Parents can choose whether to defer this offer or to accept the offer on a part time basis as they wish.
This deferment or part time attendance period can be up to the point at which the child is legally required to start school (i.e. the start of the term after the child’s fifth birthday).
It cannot be beyond the end of the normal academic year of entry for the child (i.e. the latest any child could start is during the summer term of reception/foundation 2), otherwise they must re-apply for admission to Year 1 or have formally obtained agreement to delay their child’s admission for one year.
Parents of children younger than five have the right to defer entry until no later than the term after the child’s fifth birthday if deferring within the same academic year. If a place is taken up part time then parents cannot take the remainder of the 30 hours that are unused at another provider.